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- ISBN
- 1681370603
- Book Title
- Down below
- Book Series
- Nyrb Classics Ser.
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.3 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Women, Personal Memoirs, General, Literary, Artists, Architects, Photographers
- Item Width
- 5 in
- Item Weight
- 4.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 112 Pages
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A stunning work of memoir and a n unforgettable depiction of the brilliance and madness by one of Surrealism's most compelling figures In 1937 Leonora Carrington--later to become one of the twentieth century's great painters of the weird, the alarming, and the wild--was a nineteen-year-old art student in London, beautiful and unapologetically rebellious. At a dinner party, she met the artist Max Ernst. The two fell in love and soon departed to live and paint together in a farmhouse in Provence. In 1940, the invading German army arrested Ernst and sent him to a concentration camp. Carrington suffered a psychotic break. She wept for hours. Her stomach became "the mirror of the earth"--of all worlds in a hostile universe--and she tried to purify the evil by compulsively vomiting. As the Germans neared the south of France, a friend persuaded Carrington to flee to Spain. Facing the approach "of robots, of thoughtless, fleshless beings," she packed a suitcase that bore on a brass plate the word Revelation . This was only the beginning of a journey into madness that was to end with Carrington confined in a mental institution, overwhelmed not only by her own terrible imaginings but by her doctor's sadistic course of treatment. In Down Below she describes her ordeal--in which the agonizing and the marvelous were equally combined--with a startling, almost impersonal precision and without a trace of self-pity. Like Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of My Nervous Illness , Down Below brings the hallucinatory logic of madness home.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1681370603
ISBN-13
9781681370606
eBay Product ID (ePID)
229068520
Product Key Features
Book Title
Down below
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Women, Personal Memoirs, General, Literary, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Book Series
Nyrb Classics Ser.
Publication Year
2017
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Number of Pages
112 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8 in
Item Height
0.3 in
Item Width
5 in
Item Weight
4.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Pr6053.A6965
Reviews
" Down Below is not only a radical reworking of the Surrealist narrative of female madness: it is a sophisticated experiment with reason, subjectivity and the narrative voice, in which Carrington is able to speak clearly of madness from the outside, to speak clearly of what is within it, of its ins and outs, without committing wholly to memoir or to art." --Joanna Walsh, Verso Books (blog) "Her stories are vivid, funny and surprisingly fresh...[they] combine satire with surrealist situations to deftly mock the pomposity of organized religion, sexual repression or the endless forms of bureaucratic hypocrisy and ineptitude... She controls her imagery, amuses us with her tweaking of the bourgeoisie and moves us with her dazzling dreamscapes, all the while firmly maintaining her slightly bemused sang-froid." --Richard Burgin, The New York Times "While other Surrealists played at madness, she was intimate with it." --Peter Campbell, London Review of Books, " Down Below is not only a radical reworking of the Surrealist narrative of female madness: it is a sophisticated experiment with reason, subjectivity and the narrative voice, in which Carrington is able to speak clearly of madness from the outside, to speak clearly of what is within it, of its ins and outs, without committing wholly to memoir or to art." --Joanna Walsh "Her stories are vivid, funny and surprisingly fresh...[they] combine satire with surrealist situations to deftly mock the pomposity of organized religion, sexual repression or the endless forms of bureaucratic hypocrisy and ineptitude.... She controls her imagery, amuses us with her tweaking of the bourgeoisie and moves us with her dazzling dreamscapes, all the while firmly maintaining her slightly bemused sang-froid." --Richard Burgin, The New York Times "While other Surrealists played at madness, she was intimate with it." --Peter Campbell, London Review of Books
Copyright Date
2017
Lccn
2016-026859
Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Dewey Edition
23
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